Children

Yellow Scarf11″ x 14″Oil on watercolor paper
After asking, the baby’s father said I could take a photo of his child. That was a long time ago on a ferry far, far away.
After painting “Let’s Meet at McManus’ ” I really needed to get away from the dark end of my palette.
I felt like I had painted this portrait so many times before because I had been looking at the snapshot and thinking about how I wanted to compose this image for so long that the final result occurred...

The Supervisor
20″x 16″
Oil on watercolor paper
This is a glimpse into every little boy’s world. The colors in the shadows really lead you through this scene to the action in the background.
I tried to open up my brushstrokes a bit with this one and achieved that slightly on the shorts and the cone